The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31

longed 10 the Primitive Baptists-s sect
concerning which The st. Louis Globe
Democrat says that ''its feeble light is little
more than travesty of religion and civili-
zstion."
When four-year-old Johnny Perry said
his prayers one night, and had asked God
to bless papa and mamma and to bless
Johnny and make him good boy, he sur
prised his mamma by saying: "And please
God, bless Mr.. Perry aud make him good
man." What do you mean by thatP'
"Wby," said Johnny, you don't. g pose 1
want to be a little boy all my life, do
your
The Episcopal convention OF the diocese
OF California unanimously passed the fol-
lowiDgsresolution in regard to church en-
tertainments:" Resolved, That this
convention reiterates and emphasizes the
condemnatory resolution of the conven-
ton of 1881 against all schemes for raising
money for church or religious purposes
which SAVIOR directly or indirectly of gam
bling, the lottery, rafting, and other games
of chance, or of the public ball"
Intelligence comes from Canton, China,
in recent letter from Rev. B. @. Henry,
one OF the Presbyterian missionaries in
that country, that in his recent travels
through the interior he met with a sect of
TehgiOnists entirely new to him and called
the Mam-tah, or Golden Elixir, by those
who originated it. and by its adherents.
The members of this sect profess to select
and combine whatever is best in the three
great religions of China-Confueianism,
Taoism and Buddhism-and they are re-
ported to be persons of high aims and pure
lives. They are chiefly scholars highly
advanced, and their chief seat is in the
southern part of the province of Human.
Bishop Coke, while maintaining his own
distinctive position. has some interesting
ideas on the possibilities of Christian unity.
The Methodists, IN his opinion, are next
OF kin to the Episcopal church. 81 have
always felt he says, ''that God, who for
wise purposes permitted the separation,
will, is his own time and way, heal the d.
vision of judah and Ephriam." And then
he reminds his own church that unity does
not mean absorption. The Moravians are
also near the Episcopal church and
even the Cougregationalistsm might, in the
opinion of the good bishop, be 6 recon-
stIucted." As for the Baptists, he reminds
them that immersion is the preferred form
of baptism in the Episcopal prayer book.
He discusses also the possibility of union
Of the Episcopal church with the Presby-
terians and Roman Catholics.
In the judgment of The Independent,
the Andover hypothesis OF the possibility
VI Pos'AuOEI pIoDatiOn LOT aDyDooyi
10 matter whether living or dying, whether
simply under the light Of nature or under
that with the added light Of revelation, is
simply foolish speculation, without the
slightest warrant in the scriptures, aud
contrary to the plain tenor and clear i'm
plication of those scriptures that make
human destiny hereafter dependent, not
upon what men do hereafter, but upon
what they do while here, and hence, treat
this life as the time in which to serve the
Lord, and by doing go secure the great re-
ward. The sooner this hypothesis is
dropped, as worthy of no standing in
Christian thought, the better for the
church and the world.